Description

WADHURST LOWER HIGH STREET TQ 6431 Number 2-5 (consec) Laurel Bank Terrace 37/10004 II Row of cottages. C16 or earlier timber-framed building, re-roofed and refronted in C18 and refenestrated in C19. Rendered with tiled roof with large central brick chimneystack and 2 other chimneystacks. 2 storeys and attics: 6 windows. 3 hipped dormers with casement windows. 6 C19 casements. Flat band, except to number 3. Numbers 3 and 5 have plank doors, others have C20 doors. Rear elevation has render to ground floor of numbers 2 and 3 and tile hanging to first floor. Numbers 4 and 5 are weatherboarded. Number 3 may retain the remains of a possible unadorned spere truss of c1350 with cut tracing. It also has a late C16 or early C17 open fireplace with wooden bressumer with run-out stops and sandstone sides. Spine beam with lambs tongue stop. Gunstock jowled posts to upper floor. Roof altered in C18 has through purlins, collar beam and inserted ridgepiece. Number 2 has late C16 spine-beam on first floor and C18 open fireplace and spine beam with run out stops to ground floor. Number 4 has a C18 spine beam but the old bakeoven beside the central chimney-stack had been removed. Number 5 retains C16 beams.

Listing NGR: TQ6426431559

External Links

• Wikidata Q26636650

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